Where you have acute income poverty, you have poor literacy, truancy, poor parenting skills and all the rest that follows.

Let’s parse and analyse it. We’ll break it into its constituent sub-clauses.

Where you have acute income poverty, you have

1. poor literacy
2. truancy
3. poor parenting skills, and
4. all the rest that follows.

He did say being poor makes you a bad parent.

It’s not me ignoring other factors. It’s people like this priest with their simplistic little solutions to big problems.

He didn’t say being poor makes you a bad parent - was his message too complicated for you?

The one fucked up family in his area are not the reason there are problems there. They do make it worse yes.

I understand what you’re saying but am dismayed by your insistence on ignoring so many other factors.

I understand your frustration but you’re ignoring so much in your desire to jeer the priest and be annoyed at people who don’t share your (or my) values.

I asked you to say more as I wanted to hear more, not because I don’t get it. No need to be an arse.
That’s all I’m going to say.

Point number one: The priest is wrong. Shortage of money doesn’t make anyone a bad parent.

Point number two: In that priest’s area, there’s one particular fucked-up family who are terrorising everyone. They are bad to the bone.

Now that’s all I’m going to say. If the post was too complicated for you, there’s nothing I can do about it.

Genetics you said. Say more.

All right?